This Labor Day, workers deserve much more than our words. They deserve our actions. We don’t need to look any further than our own city to see the power of working people leading on critical issues in our economy and society. Long before this year’s...

Philadelphia’s moms are suffering from a higher-than-average pregnancy-related death rate, and that burden has been disproportionately born by African American women. Philadelphia’s moms are arriving at pregnancy sicker, and with chronic health conditions...

Parents shouldn’t have to choose between unpredictable work schedules and taking care of their children. But too many do. Take the single father of a boy with behavioral issues. He dutifully scheduled his son’s doctor’s appointments so his son...

For the retail industry, customer emails are currency. Get that address, and a company can personalize customers’ future experiences, targeting them for discounts and promotions that could make them more likely to become repeat customers. The responsibility to...

A Philadelphia lawmaker had a sizable crowd cheering her on Thursday morning when she introduced legislation that would provide protections for 130,000 hourly workers earning the lowest wages at the nation’s largest corporations in the retail, food-service and...

Symphony Hurst is a proud mother, but she has occasionally found herself withholding that fact from her employers. Hurst, who grew up in Southwest Philadelphia and now lives in the Overbrook section, has a four-year-old daughter and works in retail — formerly Macy’s,...